Trump's Second Term

[thaiboxerken]

I wonder if the pamphlets in question are easily attainable. I'd like to see one.

 

[Tero]

Please read this entire article:

Trump voters: We told you this was coming — and you have no one to blame but yourselves

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[shemp]

Paywall or asking contribution

Not for me, and I'm not a member.

I didn't need to use this, but you can try this: https://12ft.io/

 

[newyorkguy]

Paywall or asking contribution

Not for me, and I'm not a member.

I didn't need to use this, but you can try this: https://12ft.io/

Or try Open in New Private Window. But author Earl Stephens is right. A freaking nightmare. I hate this. Somebody p-l-e-a-s-e make it stop!

 

[Darat]

Or try Open in New Private Window. But author Earl Stephens is right. A freaking nightmare. I hate this. Somebody p-l-e-a-s-e make it stop!

Only a few years to go, it’s rather like the pandemic you just have to endure it.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Allina Habba says foreign students are not allowed to "hand out pamphlets in our country and try to infiltrate those terroristic thoughts ... and if you bring that into our country, you can get the hell out."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1899917433789424077

I'm confused. Is that video from one of those terrible European countries Vance was recently scolding for their attitude to freedom of speech? I guess it must be.

 

[Aridas]

Justice Department office that prosecutes public corruption slashed in size, sources say

...The Party that's been behind pretty much every major pro-corruption effort in my lifetime is brazenly continuing to enable corruption? What a shock!

 

[Safe-Keeper]

I got to read the Raw Story article by hurriedly selecting the entire text and copying it before the popup appeared, then again I have a really slow laptop. If you don't, maybe try it with two dozen tabs open .

In other news, US teens are apparently flocking to Scandinavian folk high schools (a kind of 'gap year' schools where you get to pursue your passion or try something new for a year, including travelling to another country, with no grades or exams) to get away from the USA for a while. I wonder how many of the US exchange students in my geography classes are in the country for the same reason. I don't blame them either, if I was in the States I'd want out, too.

It's sad, by the way --I used to love to meet American students, today when I hear someone speak English with an American accent all I can think is "did they vote for Drumpf?".

 

[steenkh]

I'm confused. Is that video from one of those terrible European countries Vance was recently scolding for their attitude to freedom of speech? I guess it must be.

Exactly. It is also interesting that freedom of speech is only intended to benefit Nazis.

 

[alfaniner]

It's sad, by the way --I used to love to meet American students, today when I hear someone speak English with an American accent all I can think is "did they vote for Drumpf?".

If they have a Southern accent, that very well may be true.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Someone let Tommy Tuberville on the TV again

"When it comes to protesters, we gotta make sure we treat all of them the same, send them to jail."

"No pain, no gain. That's what we used to tell our football players. There's gonna be some pain with tariffs. Democrats get out of the way. Shut up."

"I'm from the South. We have a different way of life in terms of education. We educate our kids in different curriculums. Everybody should do their own thing."

 

[Andy_Ross]

TAPPER: Are you sure that Trump has the economy all under control?

SHEEHY: Shareholders want certainty, and as we all know, President Trump is changing that framework every second of every day ... just like getting on a diet, there's gonna be some pain in the process

First of all, the stock market has been on a sugar high a long time, we are gonna see a correction there.

 

[Fidelio]

If they voted for Trump chances are they wouldn't be in one of those awful foreign countries.

If they have a Southern accent, that very well may be true.

 

[shemp]

Someone let Tommy Tuberville on the TV again

"When it comes to protesters, we gotta make sure we treat all of them the same, send them to jail."

"No pain, no gain. That's what we used to tell our football players. There's gonna be some pain with tariffs. Democrats get out of the way. Shut up."

"I'm from the South. We have a different way of life in terms of education. We educate our kids in different curriculums. Everybody should do their own thing."

Quite the combination of idiot and ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊.

 

[shemp]

David Burbach (@dburbach.bsky.social)

FBI telling Citibank to freeze accounts of Habitat for Humanity, the United Way, and the State of NY Dept of Taxation, among a few dozen others. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

bsky.app

"Nice non-profit ya got there. Be a shame if anything 'appened to it."

 

[arthwollipot]

The common English convention is that a doubled consonant makes the previous vowel short, and if there is no doubled consonant, the previous vowel is short.

That's why Tuberville sounds to me like a mobile game about growing potatoes.

 

[Trebuchet]

The common English convention is that a doubled consonant makes the previous vowel short, and if there is no doubled consonant, the previous vowel is short.

That's why Tuberville sounds to me like a mobile game about growing potatoes.

I've been calling him "Spudtown" since I first heard of him.

 

[psionl0]

Isn't that what I just said?

No. You said "the PM has been around too long and has started to go off" which is a totally different thing.

 

[Stacyhs]

Trump's personal revenge mission:

The law firm of Perkins Coie is responding to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting them with a sweeping new lawsuit accusing the administration of political repression — and legal experts are celebrating the move.

Trump targeted the firm, which is widely respected in the legal field and whose own lawyers have received appointments to judgeships by Trump in the past, in what is widely believed to be retaliation for opposing his lawsuits to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The order strips the firm and anyone involved with it of security clearances and ties to the federal government generally.

"Great to see Perkins Coie challenge Trump’s order banning them from security clearances, government contracts, and federal buildings," wrote former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade on X. "And good for Williams and Connelly [sic] for not only representing them, but having 15 lawyers sign their names to the complaint."

 

[JayUtah]

"When it comes to protesters, we gotta make sure we treat all of them the same, send them to jail."

All protesters go to jail. Got it.

"No pain, no gain. That's what we used to tell our football players. There's gonna be some pain with tariffs. Democrats get out of the way. Shut up."

And it sound fiscal policy were anything like football, that would make sense. Not all pain leads to gain. Shooting yourself in the foot hurts too.

"I'm from the South. We have a different way of life in terms of education. We educate our kids in different curriculums. Everybody should do their own thing."

Yes, we all saw Inherit the Wind. Education in the South is not the flex Sen. Tuberville thinks it is, but it sure does explain a lot.

SHEEHY: Shareholders want certainty, and as we all know, President Trump is changing that framework every second of every day ... just like getting on a diet, there's gonna be some pain in the process

Sounds like a straight-up admission that Trump's tariff whiplash is 100% responsible for the market volatility that no one wanted or asked for.

First of all, the stock market has been on a sugar high a long time, we are gonna see a correction there.

Six months ago the explanation for a robust stock market was anticipation of Donald Trump's presidency. I sure wish we could make up our minds whether that was a good thing or a bad thing.